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All these years, the world was dominated by men, and this is probably why the idea was propounded that women, as a rule, were inclined to gossip. That women, as a rule, were vain, and more concerned with personal beauty, cosmetics and what have you. It was men who put out those ideas.

The late Harry Belafonte used to sing a Calypso, the title of which I have appropriated for this discourse on the subject of men, vis-a-vis women. There was also another calypso, sung, I believe by the Kingston Trio, which said that "Woman sweeter than man, woman sweeter than man. But if a woman sweeter than me, then I jump in the Mahaweli". And there have been other songs, too, many of them Calypsos, on the same theme.

In my youth, I thought these singers had got it all wrong, but now, in the twilight of my life, I am inclined to the view that they were right all along.

Let me give that sucker-punch, straight from the shoulder, as they would say in boxing parlance. Men, I have found, particularly today, are bigger gossips than women. Men are also more vain than women.

All these years, the world was dominated by men, and this is probably why the idea was propounded that women, as a rule, were inclined to gossip. That women, as a rule, were vain, and more concerned with personal beauty, cosmetics and what have you. It was men who put out those ideas.